spanish cinema

a festival from the 19th to the 30th of march 

http://www.spanishfilmfestival.ie

 

i love spanish cinema, it's often rough, really direct, and sometimes violent but i really like it, particularly Pedro Almodovar (spanish director) and Alejandro Gonzalez Inaritu (mexican director) 

 

i'm going to see the new Gael Garcia Bernal

Deficit
Déficit

Director: Gael García Bernal
Thursday 20th March, 6.15pm

Mexican star Gael García Bernal makes his initial foray into directing with Déficit, a seemingly straightforward
story about a house party held just outside Mexico City. Taking his cue from films like Alfonso Cuarón’s Y tu mamá también (in which he co-starred), García Bernal examines the differences between the classes in Mexico.

Hip-hop-loving rich kid Cristobal (García Bernal) is having his pals over for a barbecue at his parents’
weekend home. His younger sister and her hippie, pill-popping friends are also staying at the house, and
the clash between the two groups of friends is comic yet intense.

A terrible case of wanting to
have one’s cake and eat it too is at the heart of Déficit’s social criticism. At first, our hero doesn’t seem so
appealing. But what makes the film intriguing is its refusal to moralise. Cristobal is not so bad, really; just completely lost. An honest, sincere
film, Defecit showcases a new facet of one of Latin America’s most inspiring young talents.